Cameo



M. STAMER Dec. 20, 1932.

CAMEO Filed Feb. 19. 1932 57 2? m an ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 20, 1932UNETED STATES MORRIS STAMER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY CAMEO Applicationfiled February 18, 1932. Serial No. 593,950.

This invention relates generally to jewelry and the like and hasparticular reference to cameos for rings, breast-plates and similardevices of personal adornment.

To this end precious or semi-precious materials, or stones, have in thepast been used, in cut cameos, in which the cameo portion has beenutilized as an ornamental stone in precious or semi-precious metalsettings of various kinds, such settings being in accord with the kindof jewelry desired. In such form the cameos have been out so that theentire ornamental design thereon, of whatever nature, has beencompletely formed of the material in which the cameo has been out.

In the present improvement the surface of the material of which thecameo is cut forms only a part of the ornamental face, there being aportion of the cut cameo left out of the designed ornamental facethereof, and a sup plemental ornamental piece fitted to the incompletecut cameo design to complete the said design.

Such supple-mental ornamental piece may be preferably of gold, silver,or other metal or material so designed as to its ornamental aspect as tobe a part of the completed design of the cameo.

Means are provided for positively combining the cameo and itssupplemental piece into a unitary structure, such means including, inthe present instance, a blind rivet and a seating cut in the cameodesign with a corresponding seating face onthe supplemental piece, aswill be later described in detail.

With the above indicated objects in view, and others which willhereinafter appear, the invention resides in certain novel constructionsand arrangements of parts, the essential features of which are hereinclearly described, and fully illustrated in the accompanying drawing, inwhich:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of my cameo;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1,looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 3 is a section like that shown in Fig.

2, but showing the space left in the cameo for the metal insert; and

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Figs. 2 and 3 showing another form of seatcut into the stone.

Similar characters of reference are applied to corresponding partsthroughout the several views.

' By way of illustration in the present instance, a cameo stone is shownas having a 6 flat base portion 10, on the top plane of which is shownthe similitude of a human face 11 in profile which is in relief upon theface of base 10.

A. second profile, that of a helmeted warrior 1:2, is cut in relief uponsaid base 10, and is so arranged that it partially eclipses the firstprofile 11 and is cut in a plane somewhat higher than the plane ofprofile 11.

In some well known forms of stone used for cameos, the stone, in itsnatural form is composed of thin strata of various natural colorings,onyx and gypsum having in their natural state such stratifications andin the cutting of the cameos thereon, these designs are so cut, forinstance, as to leave the face of the base 10 exposed in one coloredstratum 10, the superposed profile 11, cut from and exposed inanother'natural colored stratum 11 and the second profile 12, cut fromand exposed in a third natural and different colored stratum 12, Fig. 3.Thus the various strata of these natural stones are utilized to enhancethe beauty of the cameo. In some instances the cameo may be artificiallycolored.

As a further means to create a novel effect on such cameo, a portion ofthe cut design left out of the stone as at 13, Fig. 3, in the present.instance, this cut away portion constitutes the helmet 14 of thewarrior, Fig. 1, and the helmet portion. struck up or cast of metal, orsimilar material, polished and engraved is introduced in the gap formedby the cut away portion 13, to complete the unitary design of thehelmeted warrior.

In 1 it will be noted that the face 15 of the warrior profile iscontoured. and that, in effect it follows the contour of the edge of thehelmet 14-. Thus the outline of the gap 13, the bottom face 13 of whichis flat, as in Fig. 3, has its side face 15 profiled or cut to suit oneedge of the helmet, thereby to cause the adjacent meeting faces of thestone and the helmet to register as to their coacting designs and,further to act as a key or bond to firmly hold the supplemental piece 14in rigid seated position.

Further the contacting side faces of the stone and the helmet, as at 15,Figs. 2 and 3 may be at an angle, or may be straight as in Fi 4.

Thus the supplemental ornamental piece 14 not only completes the designmotif of the ornamentally cut stone relief 12, but advantage is taken ofcertain lines of thedesign to create a keying means to hold thesupplemental and cameo portions in registration.

As a means for afiixing the supplemental piece 1% rigidly to its placeof assembly, the base 10 is drilled as at 16, Fig. 2, and a rivet 17, orsimilar extension of the supplemental piece 14 is entered into the hole16 and headed over. Thus the riveting of the supplemental piece 14 isaccomplished so that it does not show on the ornamental face thereof.

I claim 1. A cameo including a base having a partial design portion inrelief thereon, said design portion being integral with said base andprojecting therefrom, and a supplemental relief section fitted to saiddesign portion.

2. A cameo including a flat stone base, an ornamental. portion in reliefon said base and projecting therefrom, a supplemental ornamental reliefportion forming a coacting ornamental section for said first notedportion and disposed on the same plane as the latter.

3. A cameo including a flat base, an ornamental port-ion in relief onsaid base and projecting therefrom, a supplemental ornamen tal reliefportion forming a coacting ornamental section for said first notedportion and disposed on the same plane as the latter, and means forattaching and registering said supplemental relief portion to theornamental relief portion and said base.

4. A cameo having a base upon which a part of a design in relief hasbeen cut, a separate supplemental piece having another portion of saiddesign and means for fixedly connecting said base and piece together toform a single unitary design in relief on said base.

Signed at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, this17th day of February, A. D. 1932.

MORRIS STAMER.

